[This post contains SPOILERS for The Walking Dead season 7 premiere.]
The premiere of The Walking Dead season 7 is continuing to provoke debate several days after first airing, proving that if anything will get people talking about a TV show, it’s brutally killing off two main characters.
The fact that Brazil and France were the top-two areas for pirating The Walking Dead premiere this season, compared to the season 6 opener which saw the U.S. leading the illegal download charts, seems to suggest that at least part of the reason fans watched the episode illegally was to avoid potential spoilers.
Although The Walking Dead doesn’t struggle to get renewed – season 8 has already been confirmed – for other shows, piracy can be a significant problem.